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Part of the difference is due to turnout, which was only 36.8 per cent in Nunavut, where there’s just one person every 51 square kilometres (versus 112 per square kilometre in Carleton).

The Liberal party was all but buried in early January, a stake driven through its heart by Conservative attacks.